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Koch Logistics Chooses Digitiliti
Koch Logistics Chooses Digitiliti.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFinancial/Investor Relations:\t\tAgency Contact:\n\nBeverly L. Jedynak\t\t\t\tScott Kline, JPR Communications\nMartin E. Janis & Company, Inc.\t\t818-386-0403\n312-943-1100 ext. 12\t\t\t\[email protected]\[email protected]\n\n\ndigitiliti Is Logical Choice for Logistics Company\n\nMINNEAPOLIS - July 9, 2007 - Storage Elements' digitiliti, a new paradigm in enterprise remote data vaulting, today announced that Koch Logistics chose digitiliti over replacing tape library equipment and upgrading software. \n\nTiming is everything. Certainly, a logistics company lives by that credo. For Koch\nLogistics of St. Paul, Minn., a division of family-owned, privately held Koch Companies,\nStorage Elements' digitiliti came along just in time. The company's data storage requirements were growing each year and tape libraries no longer offered enough space; nor did they provide enough scalability for future needs. \n\n\"I was at a point where I faced buying new libraries and changing to new software versions that supported archival and data retention,\" says Bruce Waslie, senior systems engineer for Koch Logistics. \"And that doesn't include our concerns about disaster recovery. \"That's when digitiliti came along,\" he says. \n\nAn agentless offsite backup and recovery solution, digitiliti offers secure, online, remote backup and disaster recovery technologies -- technologies that provide Koch Logistics with a mix of benefits that no tape library, or any in-house storage solution, could provide.\n\nThe financial benefit of using digitiliti, rather than purchasing new libraries and\nupgrading software and licenses, is huge. \"It's expensive to keep up with software changes,\" Waslie says. \"It's expensive to keep up with tape libraries that can only scale so far.\" With digitiliti, Koch doesn't pay for an agent or for ongoing maintenance or support. Koch pays only for the storage space its data takes up on the system. And digitiliti's unique compression technology ensures that space is minimized. \n\nEach day, Koch protects more than 2000GB of data from two locations with digitiliti through a bonded T1 line over the Internet. The system compresses that data to less then 900GB (about 2.4:1).\n\nConfidence in the system also is a big plus. \"We had always been concerned about our\nbackups - simply, whether or not they worked,\" says Waslie....